Ciddi Olmanın Önemi: okumadan önce öğrenilecek 40 kelime
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
Oscar Wilde, «Ciddi Olmanın Önemi» kitabında bu 40 kelimeyi tekrar tekrar kullanıyor ve hiçbiri İngilizcenin en sık 4.000 kelimesi arasında değil. Önceden öğrenirseniz ilk bölümler çok daha kolay okunur. Her kelimenin telaffuzu, anlamı ve kitaptan bir cümlesi var.
christen/ˈkɹɪsən/vaftiz etmekkitapta 18 kez
Gwendolen, I must get christened at once—I mean we must get married at once.
muffin/ˈməfən/muffin, maffinkitapta 18 kez
[Begins to eat muffins.]
guardian/ˈɡɑɹdiən/gardiyan, korumakitapta 14 kez
Old Mr. Thomas Cardew, who adopted me when I was a little boy, made me in his will guardian to his grand-daughter, Miss Cecily Cardew.
diary/ˈdaɪɝi/günlük, jurnal, ruznamekitapta 14 kez
[Cecily begins to write in her diary.]
aunt/ˈænt/hala, teyze, yengekitapta 14 kez
She is my aunt.
absurd/əbˈsɝd/abes, saçma, absürtkitapta 11 kez
it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn’t.
dine/ˈdaɪn/yemek yemekkitapta 10 kez
Bring me that cigarette case Mr. Worthing left in the smoking-room the last time he dined here.
nonsense/ˈnɑnsɛns/saçmalık, palavrakitapta 10 kez
Oh, that is nonsense!
till/ˈtɪɫ/-e kadarkitapta 10 kez
I shall probably not be back till Monday.
mamma/ˈmɑmə/anneciğimkitapta 9 kez
Thanks, mamma, I’m quite comfortable where I am.
darling/ˈdɑɹɫɪŋ/biricik, canım, sevgilikitapta 9 kez
Personally, darling, to speak quite candidly, I don’t much care about the name of Ernest .
christening/ˈkɹɪsənɪŋ/vaftizkitapta 8 kez
I have preached it at harvest celebrations, christenings, confirmations, on days of humiliation and festal days.
cucumber/ˈkjukəmbɝ/hıyar, salatalıkkitapta 8 kez
And, speaking of the science of Life, have you got the cucumber sandwiches cut for Lady Bracknell?
fond/ˈfɑnd/düşkünkitapta 8 kez
‘From little Cecily with her fondest love.’
ward/ˈwɔɹd/mahcur, mehcur, musikitapta 8 kez
Have you told Gwendolen yet that you have an excessively pretty ward who is only just eighteen?
unfortunate/ənˈfɔɹtʃənət/talihsiz, uğursuzkitapta 8 kez
And I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to?
consent/kənˈsɛnt/onay, rızakitapta 8 kez
In the second place, I don’t give my consent.
invalid/ˈɪnvəɫəd/hasta, yatalakkitapta 7 kez
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
wicked/ˈwɪkəd/lanetli, uğursuzkitapta 7 kez
I have never met any really wicked person before.
nephew/ˈnɛfju/erkek yeğen, yeğenkitapta 7 kez
… no matter what her size may be, should call her own nephew her uncle, I can’t quite make out.
cough/ˈkɑf/ve ağızdan dışarı hava itmek öksürmekkitapta 7 kez
Oh, don’t cough, Ernest.
peculiarly/pɪkˈjuɫjɝɫi/özelliklekitapta 6 kez
I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts.
heartless/ˈhɑɹtɫəs/kalpsizkitapta 6 kez
You couldn’t be so heartless as to disown him.
pardon/ˈpɑɹdən/afkitapta 6 kez
I beg your pardon, Algy, I suppose I shouldn’t talk about your own aunt in that way before you.
clever/ˈkɫɛvɝ/akıllı, zeki, afacankitapta 6 kez
Is that clever?
sofa/ˈsoʊfə/kanepekitapta 6 kez
[Inspects them, takes two, and sits down on the sofa.]
chill/ˈtʃɪɫ/soğukkitapta 6 kez
You had much better say a severe chill.
salvertepsikitapta 5 kez
[Hands them on a salver.]
kindly/ˈkaɪndɫi/nazikçekitapta 5 kez
But I’ll run over the programme I’ve drawn out, if you will kindly come into the next room for a moment.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/iç açıcıkitapta 5 kez
How perfectly delightful!
cloak/ˈkɫoʊk/vestiyerkitapta 5 kez
In the cloak-room at Victoria Station.
flirt/ˈfɫɝt/flört etmek, oynaşmak, sevişmekkitapta 5 kez
My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful.
nowadays/ˈnaʊəˌdeɪz/şimdikitapta 5 kez
My dear fellow, it isn’t easy to be anything nowadays.
charm/ˈtʃɑɹm/büyülemekkitapta 5 kez
If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won’t want to know Bunbury.
sooner/ˈsunɝ/daha çokkitapta 4 kez
I’d sooner die.
din/ˈdɪn/yemek yemekkitapta 4 kez
… I see from your book that on Thursday night, when Lord Shoreman and Mr. Worthing were dining with me, eight bottles of champagne are entered as having been consumed.
vulgar/ˈvəɫɡɝ/kabakitapta 4 kez
It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn’t a dentist.
railway/ˈɹeɪɫˌweɪ/demir yolu, şimendiferkitapta 4 kez
As for the particular locality in which the hand-bag was found, a cloak-room at a railway station might serve to conceal a social indiscretion—has probably, indeed …
specially/ˈspɛʃəɫi/ayrıkitapta 4 kez
The Divorce Court was specially invented for people whose memories are so curiously constituted.
luggage/ˈɫəɡədʒ/bagaj, yükkitapta 4 kez
He has brought his luggage with him.
Anlamlar: WikDict, English to Turkish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Telaffuz: ipa-dict (MIT), Vikisözlük verisinden.
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